The job description requires one to 'represent all constituents'

Public service is a calling — for the good ones it’s a 24/7 job, and when done properly, civilizations progress and prosper. The best public servants have an overwhelming compulsion to serve others, to make a difference where possible, to improve the plight of those less fortunate.

When unqualified candidates win government jobs, with the purpose of forestalling all progress — voila! — meet the GOP, the U.S. House of Representatives and many tea party legislatures. These ‘special interests’ lawmakers govern to the minority of the minority rather than considering all their state’s residents and America as a whole. When idolizing an ideology outweighs serving the majority, injustice reigns.

As South Carolina residents, we should place our trust in someone who understands our life struggles, someone whose life experiences mirror so many of us, someone who has a kinship with constituents. Elizabeth Colbert Busch has roots far deeper than her Charleston childhood and residence, her professional credentials prove her accomplishments sparked success for others.

Colbert Busch proudly serves as an adviser to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Coalition (STEM,) dedicated to attracting under-represented and financially-disadvantaged youth to those fields of study. She also sits on the Charleston School of Law’s Maritime Institute Advisory Board, as well as having been a former member of the Advisory Committee of the College of Charleston’s Intermodal Transportation and Logistics Management Program.

She served as chairwoman of the South Carolina International Trade Conference and was named one of the Journal of Commerce’s Top 20 Women in Transportation. She serves Brookings Institute’s Advisory Council on Exports and the World Trade Center, the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, and was named Woman of the Year by the prestigious Charleston Women in International Trade. Colbert Busch is one of the Journal of Commerce’s Top 20 Women in Transportation.

Colbert Busch can obviously walk and chew gum simultaneously — she supports private industry while ardently defending workers’ rights, realizing one doesn’t trump the other, but both factions are cooperative ingredients for building the state economy. “As a tough and independent businesswoman, we should be laser-focused to end wasteful and duplicative spending.”

Colbert Busch understands fiscal responsibility through sensible budgeting doesn’t mean seniors or the disadvantaged need be thrown to the wolves. She agrees with Ronald Reagan — “Social Security is totally funded by payroll taxes. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not reduce the deficit — it has nothing to do with balancing a budget.”

As a mother and grandmother, Colbert Busch believes no woman’s access to contraception or reproductive health care should be based on where she lives — all women have the right to make decisions about if, when, and how often to have children. She realizes banning legal abortions won’t stop abortions — only safe abortions. Take away a woman’s right to decide and she’ll find a back alley abortionist or use a drug or wire hanger ‘home solution’ to solve her predicament — just as millions of women have over the centuries. She’ll champion our civil and human rights, fighting rampant conservative gender discrimination.

A local conservative pundit admits the only basic ‘problem’ with Elizabeth Colbert Busch is “she’s a Democrat.” And, he cannot easily enumerate a reason to vote for her opponent, Mark Sanford. I’m confident tea party talking points are coming our way before the May 7 election, however, thus far, Republicans can only contribute ‘party fidelity’ as reason to oppose this successful businesswoman with progressive ideas.

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Politicians generally stick together by party and despite her ads saying she is a fiscal conservative, she is in the wrong party to advance her stated agendas. She would get more conservative votes if she had run and won the GOP primary against Sanford. We all know it's scratch my back and I'll scratch yours in DC.

Colbert Busch is a liar pretending to be someone she is not because she is running in a red State.
Colbert Busch would be another vote for Pelosi, Reid, and Obama's far-left agenda.
Period.

Problem is, she'll probably win.
The good part is, we get rid of a tainted republican in Mark Sanford, and Busch shouldn't be able to do too much damage in 1 term before we get another conservative to run against her in the next election.